Werkzaamheden en groepsfoto's Possibly 1940 - 1942

This is an album of black and white photographs of various sizes, showing different scenes of daily life, of people and military operations, created by an anonymous artist. I’m drawn to the intimate scale and tactile quality of the photographs. The darks and lights are working against each other in a way that reveals the textures and forms of the subjects. I get a sense of the artist's process here, the way they chose these photographs. Each one holds a story. I try to imagine what it must have been like to create this album. They are bearing witness to a specific moment in time, perhaps a time of change, when the personal and the political become inseparable. The act of documenting becomes a form of survival. There’s something incredibly moving about the fact that this album exists at all. These photographs speak to the enduring power of art to connect us across time. I see it as part of a wider conversation about what it means to be human.